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Une œuvre canonique de la littérature française qui relate les luttes et les triomphes des tentatives d'une femme africaine de naviguer dans les structures coloniales oppressives du Paris du XVIIIe ……続きを見る

An early African American novel that tells the story of a young woman named Clotel, the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and a slave. It follows her journey as she navigates the complexities of her iden……続きを見る

In The Voyage of St Brendan, A.B. Jackson tells the tale of the legendary seafaring Irish abbot. After burning a book of fantastical stories, Brendan is compelled to sail the ocean with a crew of si……続きを見る

In 'De Ridderromantiek der Franse en Duitse Middeleeuwen' onderzoekt Vald. Vedel het rijke culturele en literaire erfgoed van de middeleeuwse ridderromantiek, met een focus op zowel Franse als Duits……続きを見る

Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance offers a broad disciplinary, linguistic, and national focus by analyzing the literary depiction of Iberia in two European vernaculars that ……続きを見る

Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to “plague writing” from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It ar……続きを見る

Medieval romances were widely condemned by early modern thinkers: the genre of questing knights and marvellous adventure was decried as bloody, bawdy and superstitious. Despite such proclamations, t……続きを見る

Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, ‘The Prose Edda’ is an Old Norse language Icelandic collection of four sections interspersed with excerpts from earlier skaldic and Ed……続きを見る

**A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia “Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging exploration of book his……続きを見る

A compilation of insightful essays and speeches by the renowned abolitionist and orator, Frederick Douglass. This collection brings together some of his most powerful and eloquent writings on the is……続きを見る

A compelling biography of one of the most controversial and significant figures in American history. John Brown was a white abolitionist who led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859……続きを見る

A powerful and inspiring biography of one of the most remarkable figures in American history. Written by Sarah H. Bradford, a friend and contemporary of Tubman, the book chronicles the life of a wom……続きを見る

"Il Quadriregio" di Federico Frezzi è un'opera poetica di profondo valore letterario e culturale, composta all'inizio del XV secolo. Il testo, scritto in forma di poesia narrativa, si presenta come ……続きを見る

Dante e gli Ebrei: Studio di Flaminio Servi affronta il complesso rapporto tra il sommo poeta fiorentino Dante Alighieri e la cultura ebraica, approfondendo i temi religiosi e filosofici della Divin……続きを見る

Le 'Chiose alla cantica dell'Inferno' di Jacopo Alighieri rappresentano un'opera di commento e analisi al celebre poema di suo padre, Dante Alighieri. In questo testo, Jacopo esamina dettagliatament……続きを見る

Although we often think of friendship today as an indisputable value of human social life, for thinkers and writers across late medieval Christian society friendship raised a number of social and et……続きを見る

This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and heroic legend, namely the medieval poems now known collectively as th……続きを見る

An edition with facing annotated translation of the twelfth-century Medieval French popular romance Guillaume d’Angleterre. The claim to fame of this verse narrative is to have had its authorship at……続きを見る

This monograph is a critical study of the medieval manuscript held in Exeter Cathedral Library, popularly known as ‘The Exeter Book’. Recent scholarship, including the standard edition of the text, ……続きを見る

Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since……続きを見る

This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempla tradition in lat……続きを見る

This volume brings together a selection of the major articles of David Mills (1938-2013), which along with similar volumes by Alexandra F. Johnston, Peter Meredith and Meg Twycross makes up a set of……続きを見る

Anne Middleton's essays have been among the most vigorous, learned, and influential in the field of medieval English literature. Their 'crux-busting' energies have illuminated local obscurities with……続きを見る

In Environmental Legacies of the Copernican Universe, Jean-Marie Kauth shows how counter-ecological metaphors sprung from the cosmology of the Copernican Revolution influence us still in unexpected,……続きを見る

700 years after Dante Alighieri's death, this book intertwines the voice of the great poet with that of an exceptional contemporary, Marco Polo, who was equally curious about the geography of both e……続きを見る

Medieval Literature: Criticism and Debates combines classic critical essays alongside new voices and approaches, highlighting vibrant debates on medieval literature that will continue to shape criti……続きを見る

A timely rethinking of the archetypal story of Noah, the great flood, and who was left behind as the waters rose Most people know the story of Noah from a children’s bible or a play set with a color……続きを見る

Courtly love and feminism are strange bedfellows, the one a controversial literary concept, and the other a continuing crusade. Both can be taken seriously or ridiculed. In this incisive book, Anton……続きを見る

Mario Rapisardi (1844-1912), scrittore, poeta, classicista, docente universitario e libero muratore, è una di quelle figure che dovrebbero essere di buon grado celebrate come assoluti e indiscussi g……続きを見る

Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis details the first years of the Confessio’s material history and offers a major revision to a century’s old narrative of political revision and conversion……続きを見る